Word: morrises
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The reverend is not sure either. He eschews government aid, and is begging money from every friend made in 22 years of preaching, for he believes that "some way God will provide." The parishioners, who set up a three-member town board, have the skills to rebuild the place, he...
WILLIAM MORRIS by E.P. THOMPSON 829 pages. Pantheon. $17.95.
Of all the Victorians, William Morris perhaps came closest to filling the outline of that egregious myth, the Renaissance Man. Only his socialist convictions made him turn down the post of Poet Laureate after Tennyson died. He translated the Icelandic sagas into English, wrote News from Nowhere, one of the...
Connective Tissue. He was the greatest designer of his age. Morris' workshops at Red House and Kelmscott offered as radical a challenge to English mass fabrication with its textiles, furniture and printed papers as, 70 years later, the Bauhaus would present to industrial manufacture in the 20th century. As...
Yet within 50 years of his death in 1896, the man's reputation had shrunk to a few yards of chintz and flowered wallpaper. This forceful and articulate genius had receded into a green limbo where Pre-Raphaelite ghosts lisped harmlessly to one another. He was posthumously seen as...